InFormers: Robots in the News

1. Want a TransFormers: Animated prototype? How about two? Then please, come right this way.

Assorted Mushrooms

1. So, yeah. Best be careful of Bindeez/Aqua Dots this Christmas…
2. No idea if the movie is ever going to happen, but in the meantime, a preview for FREDDY vs. JASON vs. ASH #1.
3. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane talks to IGN about the strike in some down-to Earth, frank terms. Also, when to expect the last completed episodes of Family Guy and American Dad.
4. Box art and bonus feature information abound, as IGN tells us about Futurama: Bender’s Big Score.
5. It’s here, it’s here! It’s finally here! Get Smart on DVD– all of it!

   …and hella-expensive, to boot. $200? Yikes! So worth it… but so out of reach…

6. IGN reports that Dragon Ball Z will shoot in Mexico, rather than Montreal. This sort of disappointed me… until I remembered the description of the movie.

Video Power

1. If you’re in the San Francisco area, you might be interested in being part of a focus group that Capcom is putting together for a new game.
2. Smash Bros. DOJO!! updates with information on the Special Moves of Lucas, and a little grim foreboding of whether or not Ness may make the cut…
3. Further details have come down regarding the midnight launch at Nintendo World for Super Mario Galaxy. I really recommend going, if you’re out that way and looking to get the game. The Wii launch was a blast, and I’d love to make it to this one if it were possible.

   Oh, and speaking of which, if you just haven’t been able to find a Wii, you’re in luck: Nintendo World will have 250 for the launch.

4. More Aqua Teen Hunger Force Ninja Pro-Am footage.
5. Ubisoft is aiming high as they seek to have a “Nintendo-like quality.”

   Sounds like the right idea to me, instead of constant bitching about how Nintendo steals all the moneys and running off to hide under the skirt of a console with an arguably less-reputed first-party development setup.

6. The Virtual Console sits pretty at 166 possible downloadable titles, and Nintendo has revealed that they are aiming for 200 by year’s end.

   Game|Life has surmised the following: That means Nintendo will have to release an average of 4.25 games per week to hit their year-end target.

   Since the crack Virtual Console team is currently on a steady three-games-per-week schedule, that means one of two things is going on:

   1) They’re about to (semi)permanently ramp up the number of Virtual Console games
   2) They are a liar :_:

   I’m pulling for #1, personally, even though the rate at which I download VC games remains infrequent, because they still cost money. But the option is nice, especially when a game comes along that I can’t resist.

7. So details about the Onimusha movie have begun to surface.

   Now, I’ve never played any of the games except for Blade Warriors, which was ok and I was only interested in because it had Mega Man characters. So I know little about the plot, except that it’s something about Japan. Feudal, I believe.

   But judging from the comments, would it be safe if I threw a guess out there that this is not how the games were?

8. And, the new line of Nintendo clothing by Torrel is available now!

   …and expensive as Hell, yikes!

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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